In gambling situations, we found a paradoxical reinforcing effect of high-risk decision-making after repeated big monetary losses. The computerized version of the Iowa Gambling Task (Bechara et al., 2000), which contained six big loss cards in deck B', was conducted on normal healthy college students. The results indicated that the total number of selections from deck A' and deck B' decreased a...

This report describes DeckScape, an experimental World-Wide Web browser based on a deck metaphor. A deck consists of a collection of Web pages, and multiple decks can exist on the screen at once. As the user traverses links, new pages appear on top of the current deck. Retrievals are done using a background thread, so all visible pages in any deck are active at all times. Users can move and cop...

1. THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE (~o The two most common methods of shuffling a deck of playing cards are the riffle shuffle and the overhand shuffle. The riffle shuffle is performed by splitting the deck into two halves and interlacing them. Aldous and Diaconis have shown in Ref. I that approximately 2 log N riffle shuffles suffices to randomize a deck (the meaning of this will be made more precise bel...

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This paper describes a system for landing a vertical take-off and landing vehicle on a moving deck using a monocular vision system and inertial measurement unit. Data from the vision system and IMU are used to compute an estimate of relative deck position, and a touchdown trajectory generator based on tau-guidance is used to compute a path to landing. A trajectory-following controller follows t...

class Encoding has name : String description : String class CharacterSet based on Encoding has characters : sequence of CharacterDefn class LanguageEncoding base on Encoding has language : Language characterSet : refers to CharacterSet Figure 6 summarizes the basic model in a diagram. It shows that every string stores a pointer to its encoding which may be either a LanguageEncoding or a Charact...

Although several air sampling devices for identifying and enumerating airborne microorganisms are commercially available, each poses some limitations. The aim of this study was to evaluate air pollution fungi using three such samplers: SAS Super 100, Microbiological Air Sampler (MAS) 100, and Air IDEAL. Mycological air was taken from the cellars of a 17th-century church in Siemiatycze, Poland, ...

In this paper we consider the problem of reconstructing a subset A ⊂ Z n , up to translation, from the collection of its subsets of size k, given up to translation (its k-deck). Results of Alon, Caro, Krasikov, and Roditty [1] show that this is possible provided k > log 2 n. Mnukhin [10] showed that every subset of Z n of size k is reconstructible from its (k − 1)-deck, provided k ≥ 4. We show ...

according to research, between 15 to 20 percent of the total energy consumption of every country is used for residential spaces. this amount is explanatory of the high cost and will follow the destruction of natural resources and environmental demolition. the aim of this research is to recognize earth thermal ability and its usage in public buildings and especially in private buildings in order...

Neurosurgery is considered to be one of the most challenging of all careers, as captured by the cliché, “it’s not brain surgery”. While the neurosurgeons who spoke to MJA reers for this issue’s Career Overview ry did emphasise the technical demands their specialty, they also said the clinical d cognitive challenges of neurosurgery re part of its appeal (page C1). Medical ntor focuses on neurosu...